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Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen

Part of the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-11742-7

ISBN: 978-1-4039-6665-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Feb 27, 2016

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Introduction Locating Memory: The Dialectics of Incorporation and Differentiation

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 1 –25

[With these words, the late Robert Serjeant introduced his subject The Saiyids of Hadramawt in his Inaugural lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the summer of 1956.1 Few of my Yemeni friends who identify themselves as sadah (sing. sayyid)—who claim direct descent from the...
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The House of the Prophet

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 29 –43

[The sadah who are the subject of this book belong to the Shi’a school of Islam. In the first and early second Islamic centuries, the Shi’a was characterized by allegiance to the Prophet’s Family and repudiation of the claim put forward by the Umayyads to be the rightful rulers of the community...
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The Zaydi Elite during the Twentieth-Century Imamate

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 44 –63

[With respect to Imamate rule, distinctions between religious functionaries who relied on their noble descent and notables who held state-derived authority cannot meaningfully be drawn.1 Senior military personnel who were often drawn from those families also enjoyed a good reputation whilst less...
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The Anatomy of Houses

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 64 –85

[The House of the Prophet is made up of patronymic descent categories of varied size, which are referred to as buyut (sing. bayt, house). The term bayt designates the physical structure of the house and its inhabitants as well as patronymic units ranging from single households to large descent...
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Snapshots of Childhood

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 89 –101

[This chapter draws biographical sketches of children whose families belonged to the Zaydi elite of the Imamate. Their fathers served in the governments of Imam Yahya and Ahmad. A substantial number of ’ulama have emerged from their houses who held positions as rulers, governors, judges, and...
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Performing Kinship

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 102 –127

[Dealing with childhood reminiscences, chapter 4 indicated that by focusing on the transmission of knowledge, narrative memory selects from the past what is culturally appropriate. This chapter seeks to illuminate this cultural elaboration by examining more closely the inextricable link between...
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The Politics of Motherhood

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 131 –144

[In the seventeenth century, the Zaydi jurist Salih b. Mahdi al-Maqbali expressed his indignation at a verdict of the ruling Imam al-Mutawakkil Isma’il b. al-Qasim which prohibited the fatimiyyat (sing. fatimiyyah, ’Alid women) from marrying ’arab (sing. ’arabi; non-’Alids) (al-Maqbali 1981:...
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Marriage in the Age of Revolution

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 145 –162

[As chapter 6 indicated, some of the scholars who opposed the rule prohibiting marriages between ’Alid women and non-’Alid men in previous centuries tended to cultivate anti-Hadawi sentiments. Since the 1962 revolution the discourse of those who had reluctantly accommodated to this rule focuses...
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“ ’Ulama of a Different Kind”

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 163 –184

[Focusing on marriage, chapter 7 showed that explanations of practices in terms of religious verdicts are often intertwined with references to present-day realities. This pattern also emerges from the analysis of the sadah’s professional engagements over time. Beginning with an analysis of the...
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The Moral Economy of Taste

vom Bruck, Gabriele

Pages: 185 –195

[It emerged from chapter 8 that the majority of sadah reckon the choice of professions based on secular knowledge to be conducive to maintaining or gaining prosperity and to their accommodation to post-revolutionary Yemen. In San’a wealth accumulation and consumption contribute significantly to...

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